Many of the hundreds and hundreds of new 1-star reviews<\/a> are complaining about inaccurate sleep and workout tracking, two of the most popular features of the old Fitbit app and some of the main reasons people buy wearable tech in the first place. That\u2019s no good. Others are complaining about errors, a layout that hides useful info, missing data and features, and of course annoying AI integration. Many reviews call out the fact that the biggest button within the app now is for the AI-powered health coach.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy is the biggest button on the screen for AI questions? You\u2019re a fitness app; the biggest button should be to add an activity. Stay in that lane,\u201d said a recent one-star review.<\/p>\n Kotaku\u2018s own Rebekah Valentine woke up to discover the Google Health app suddenly providing her with unwanted and unasked-for AI sleep summaries<\/a>. She is now ending her paid subscription and looking to find a replacement app. And she\u2019s not alone.<\/a> Many of the 1-star reviews being posted on the Play Store are suggesting they are done with Google Health\/Fitbit and will move on to something else.<\/p>\n As of May 27, there is no way to revert to the old app, and Google seems unwilling to provide the original Fitbit app to customers. Congrats, Google, you took a popular and successful brand and, in less than five years,<\/a> turned it into something people hate and which will never be popular again. Good job?<\/p>\n Seemingly in response to all the negative reviews and yelling, Google has posted a roadmap for its new Google Health app<\/a> and promised to fix a lot of the issues and bugs people are sharing. It\u2019s a bit odd that Google didn\u2019t try to, uh, fix or listen to people over the last year as they were testing and previewing this new app and are only now seemingly rushing to make things better. But then again, I\u2019m not surprised.<\/p>\n This is big tech in 2026. It is no longer about building cool apps, useful devices, or worthwhile services. Instead, all big tech can do is desperately take things that worked and slap new coats of paint on them endlessly while shoving in more AI features, ads, and paywalls in a desperate attempt to convince shareholders that they are making big changes as they do whatever it takes to make that number go up.<\/p>\n There was a time when tech companies found success by solving problems or delighting people with new products. Those days are gone. Enjoy your AI slop. And if you don\u2019t enjoy it, get fucked, loser! We own everything anyway. Enshittification, baby! Everything gets worse<\/a>. Nothing gets better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google recently updated the Fitbit health app and replaced it with a new Google Health app. This new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,9916,844,86,56,54,55,4862],"class_list":["post-607052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-fitbit","tag-google","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"1star\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1star.jpg\")
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